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    nbd/client: Don't hard-disconnect on ESHUTDOWN from server · 01b05c66
    Eric Blake authored
    
    
    The NBD spec says that a server may fail any transmission request
    with ESHUTDOWN when it is apparent that no further request from
    the client can be successfully honored.  The client is supposed
    to then initiate a soft shutdown (wait for all remaining in-flight
    requests to be answered, then send NBD_CMD_DISC).  However, since
    qemu's server never uses ESHUTDOWN errors, this code was mostly
    untested since its introduction in commit b6f5d3b5.
    
    More recently, I learned that nbdkit as the NBD server is able to
    send ESHUTDOWN errors, so I finally tested this code, and noticed
    that our client was special-casing ESHUTDOWN to cause a hard
    shutdown (immediate disconnect, with no NBD_CMD_DISC), but only
    if the server sends this error as a simple reply.  Further
    investigation found that commit d2febedb introduced a regression
    where structured replies behave differently than simple replies -
    but that the structured reply behavior is more in line with the
    spec (even if we still lack code in nbd-client.c to properly quit
    sending further requests).  So this patch reverts the portion of
    b6f5d3b5 that introduced an improper hard-disconnect special-case
    at the lower level, and leaves the future enhancement of a nicer
    soft-disconnect at the higher level for another day.
    
    CC: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <20171113194857.13933-1-eblake@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
    01b05c66
    nbd/client: Don't hard-disconnect on ESHUTDOWN from server
    Eric Blake authored
    
    
    The NBD spec says that a server may fail any transmission request
    with ESHUTDOWN when it is apparent that no further request from
    the client can be successfully honored.  The client is supposed
    to then initiate a soft shutdown (wait for all remaining in-flight
    requests to be answered, then send NBD_CMD_DISC).  However, since
    qemu's server never uses ESHUTDOWN errors, this code was mostly
    untested since its introduction in commit b6f5d3b5.
    
    More recently, I learned that nbdkit as the NBD server is able to
    send ESHUTDOWN errors, so I finally tested this code, and noticed
    that our client was special-casing ESHUTDOWN to cause a hard
    shutdown (immediate disconnect, with no NBD_CMD_DISC), but only
    if the server sends this error as a simple reply.  Further
    investigation found that commit d2febedb introduced a regression
    where structured replies behave differently than simple replies -
    but that the structured reply behavior is more in line with the
    spec (even if we still lack code in nbd-client.c to properly quit
    sending further requests).  So this patch reverts the portion of
    b6f5d3b5 that introduced an improper hard-disconnect special-case
    at the lower level, and leaves the future enhancement of a nicer
    soft-disconnect at the higher level for another day.
    
    CC: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <20171113194857.13933-1-eblake@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
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